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Windows 7: New and odd systray icon

I found this icon in my systray this evening when rebooting after installing Flash updates for both Firefox and IE. After my HDD settled down, it vanished, and it didn't show up in my Customization area, or anywhere else. Device Manager doesn't show any new devices. My PC seems to work fine.

Does anyone know what this indicates, besides something that's temporarily not working?

Put your mouse on it to see if it reveals what it is, if not click or right click on it to see what it offers as these are made to be clickable. It looks like either a brightness control or connection manager with the waves coming off it. I've not seen that one before.

Meanwhile scour your Control Panel>Programs for anything you don't want and didn't install. If you order it by date it may be immediately obvious so you can uninstall it.

Thanks to the both of you.
Greg, I'll run both scans right now.
Callender, I'll run that program right after the malware scans.
I'll report back when I'm done, most likely in the morning (it's nearly 2am for me).
I've also scoured Event Viewer for anything out of the ordinary at that time. No joy.

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